Queensland election: Meet the young guns trying to bring greater diversity into Parliament

Their views on most topics might be widely varied, but a small cohort of conservative and Greens political candidates are on a unity ticket when it comes to their desire to get more youth into State Parliament.

The November 25 state election features at least five candidates aged in their early 20s.

He has been letter-boxing in the electorate in a car sporting his P-plates.

"If you were to ask me a month ago if I'd be running for Parliament at the age of 20, I'd say you were joking," Mr Conaglen said.

Yet the young law student said he had been interested in politics for some time.

He said he watched Federal Parliament Question Time on television when he was a child, and won a high school debating competition in Year 12 that resulted in him meeting Tony Abbott.

Mr Conaglen moved to Gladstone temporarily this month and is bunking in the spare room of MP Ken O'Dowd.

He has spent the past few years working in the office of senator Matt Canavan.

'Little chickens in a big hen house'

Mr Conaglen decided to put his hand up to run in Gladstone — a safe Labor seat that struggles to find a LNP candidate — to give voters a conservative choice, although he does not actually live in the electorate.

"We've got a lot a lot of ageing politicians and a lot of wisdom and grey hairs," Mr Conaglen said.

"But we need some young people in Parliament to bring a breath of fresh air."

Mr Conaglen was able to sway pre-poll voter Sandra Strutton with his ambition and enthusiasm.

"He was standing there looking young and vibrant. I didn't want to vote Labor anyways, so I voted for Chay," Ms Strutton said.

"I think they're very courageous doing what they're doing.

"It's a tough road going up against all of the people who know what they're doing, and they're little chickens in a big hen house."

Queensland Labor is fielding three candidates who are under the age of 30 — Meaghan Scanlon (Gaven), Paul Taylor (Mudgeeraba) and Josh Blundell-Thornton (Mermaid Beach).

Other young candidates include 23-year-old Amy Lohse, a One Nation rookie running against Mr Conaglen in Gladstone, while Greens candidates Imogen Lindenberg (Whitsunday) and Anisa Nandaula (Stretton), are aged 20 and 19 respectively.

In Brisbane, 20-year-old Greens candidate Elizabeth World has been rubbing shoulders on the campaign trail in the marginal Labor seat of Ferny Grove, where she is running against Local Government Minister Mark Furner.

"It's a bit different. My friends are going out on the weekends partying," she said.

"I'll do a bit of that and then it's like, hey guys, I've got to go to bed at 9:00pm."

Ms World and Mr Conaglen share one view in common — that there are not enough young people in politics.

"We're lucky to have Jordon Steele-John at a federal level just come in, which is absolutely fantastic," Ms World said.

"But at a state level in Queensland we haven't had young people."

Although many of them are running in seats they are unlikely to poll double figures in, the young candidates believe youth is working in their favour.